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That's one of the things I feel FOSS is largely underestimating, the amount of old code running in offices around the world. You can still run programs from the
by digi_owl 10y ago
That's one of the things I feel FOSS is largely underestimating, the amount of old code running in offices around the world. You can still run programs from the Windows 1.x-3.x era (win16) if you have a 32 bit Windows 10 install. You apparently need the 32 bit version because 64 and 16 bit modes are mutually exclusive (or some such).
- poizan42 10y agoIt's because Virtual 8086 mode is unavailable in long mode. So either you would have to switch the cpu in and out of long mode (which probably has a performance penalty and complicates the code), or use the more general purpose virtualization support (which may not be available), or just emulate everything. It not surprising that Microsoft just decided that it wasn't worth it.